2 survivors found after 92 hours

TOKYO—Rescuers on Tuesday pulled two survivors, a woman and a man, from underneath the rubble four days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami.

Sai Abe, a 70-year-old woman, was found alive in the quake-hit town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, a rescue official said.

“She was lying in the debris of a house which has been washed away by a tsunami. We found her 92 hours after the quake hit,” the official told Agence France-Presse by telephone.

Abe was suffering from hypothermia but was conscious and not in a life-threatening condition, he said, adding that she had been hospitalized.

A man in his 20s was rescued in the town of Ishimaki in hard-hit Miyagi prefecture, after suffering leg injuries in Friday’s quake and tsunami disaster that prevented him from escaping his home, public broadcaster NHK said.

“I was washed away by the tsunami but I am all right,” the network quoted the man as saying.

A senior medevac official told the network: “He was lying in the debris. It’s kind of a miracle that he’s still alive.” On Monday, emergency personnel found 2,000 bodies in Miyagi.